Police identify body in barrel

Police have identified the body found encased in concrete and stuffed in a barrel off Toronto’s downtown waterfront as that of 47-year-old Quang Lu, who had been reported missing from his Markham home since October, 2007.

Toronto Homicide Detective Justin Vander Heyden told a press conference Tuesday that because Lu’s remains were cast in concrete before they were dumped into Lake Ontario, they were well preserved and were identified using fingerprint analysis.

Marine police and divers recovered Lu’s body on Sunday, using a crane to hoist the barrel from the waters of Lake Ontario at the bottom of Jarvis Street, near the Redpath Sugar refinery.